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  • Artist Info: Babels of blocks to the high heavens tow’ring,<br />
    Flames of futility swirling below;<br />
    Poisonous fungi in brick and stone flow’ring,<br />
    Lanterns that shudder and death-lights that glow.<br />
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    Black monstrous bridges across oily rivers,<br />
    Cobwebs of cable by nameless things spun;<br />
    Catacomb deeps whose dank chaos delivers<br />
    Streams of live foetor, that rots in the sun.<br />
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    Colour and splendour, disease and decaying,<br />
    Shrieking and ringing and scrambling insane,<br />
    Rabbles exotic to stranger-gods praying,<br />
    Jumbles of odour that stifle the brain.<br />
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    Legions of cats from the alleys nocturnal,<br />
    Howling and lean in the glare of the moon,<br />
    Screaming the future with mouthings infernal,<br />
    Yelling the burden of Pluto’s red rune.<br />
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    Tall tow’rs and pyramids ivy’d and crumbling,<br />
    Bats that swoop low in the weed-cumber’d streets;<br />
    Bleak broken bridges o’er rivers whose rumbling<br />
    Joins with no voice as the thick tide retreats.<br />
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    Belfries that blackly against the moon totter,<br />
    Caverns whose mouths are by mosses effac’d,<br />
    And living to answer the wind and the water,<br />
    Only the lean cats that howl in the waste!<br />
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    -H.P. Lovecraft
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